Paul says, to depart and be with Christ is not just a difference between the good and the better.

It's the difference between the good and the far better.

Not just better, far better.

I mean, it's a quantum leap of goodness for the Christian to die,

because we go immediately to be with Christ.

The Apostle Paul provides Christians with a helpful perspective that goes directly against the thinking of the world.

For Paul to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

It's not the worldly idea that to live is good, and to die is bad.

And as R.C. Sproul just reminded us, Paul would go on to say that to be with Christ is far better.

This is the Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind,

and all week we've been building a biblical view of grief, death, and eternity.

Well, for the next two days, we've handpicked messages from R.C. Sproul's overview of theology series,

because these messages deal specifically with these important topics.

Well, today he considers the words of Paul to help us understand what happens when we die, and where do we go?

We come now to the segment or subdivision of theology that we call eschatology.

And eschatology is so called, because the word derives from the Greek word eschaton,

which refers to the so-called last things, or the future things,

those things that are left remaining about our hope of redemption.

And so we're going to start our study of eschatology today by considering a little bit about

the big enemy that we face as human beings.

The single greatest problem that we encounter as mortals, and that is that we are mortal.

That is that we, at some point, have to deal with death. Death is the final enemy that we are told

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